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Artist on JoePa statue, other work: Still standing tall

Daily Record/Sunday News

Updated:
12/03/2012 06:17:39 AM EST

There's a lot more to Wilfer Buitrago than a fallen statue of a famous football coach.

Buitrago, one of three regional artists who created the 7 1/2-foot statue of Penn State icon Joe Paterno that was recently removed from the school's football stadium, creates many other animate forms using varied materials.

He sculpts realistic animals and winged human figures in bronze, and creates three-dimensional paintings in which forms rise up from the flat plane of a canvas.